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If Lloyd's campaign is successful it could result in each claimant being paid up to £500 in compensation.

This would be the largest bill ever paid to UK consumers.

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Lloyd is aiming to take this case to court on behalf of the five and a half million people who were using iPhones at the time.

Speaking to Radio 4, Lloyd said: "There is some precedent in the UK courts, where a small group of individuals settled privately with Google, but what has never happened, and what I think is a huge gap in the regulatory system, is everyone else who was affected by this workaround, the privacy settings on Safari, they've never had any access to redress at all and that's what we're trying to tackle with this claim."

He also added: "At the moment there is a sense that Google and similar tech giants from Silicon Valley are behaving as if they are above the law, that they can't be held to account in the courts in this country."